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@glyph @dngrs Thanks for taking the temperature down, Glyph. Much appreciated.

Interested in your thoughts on the refactoring example.

Also, for the record ... I personally am on the skeptical side of these technologies. The major use-cases for LLMs appear to be propaganda, disinfo, and spam at scale. I generally agree with Timrit's TESCREAL critique, and I find the Singularity crew to be somewhere between laughable and horrifying.

A year ago, I would have wholeheartedly agreed with many of the points here. But the technologies are advancing rapidly, and the quality+utility of the results is getting pretty amazing. Many of my colleagues are doing a rapid about-face on the utility of these tools, especially in the coding domain. Blanket dismissal is no longer viable.